Sweijs The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-21303-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 293 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict

Ultimata feature as a core concept in the coercive diplomacy scholarship. Conventional wisdom holds that pursuing an ultimatum strategy is risky. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong on the basis of a new dataset of 87 ultimata issued from 1920–2020. It provides a historical examination of ultimata in Western strategic, political, and legal thought since antiquity until the present, and offers a four-pronged typology that explains their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum. The book yields a better understanding of interstate threat behaviour at a time of surging competition. Background materials can be consulted at www.coercivediplomacy.com.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sweijs, Tim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive DiplomacyChapter 2: A Genealogy of UltimataChapter 3: Ultimata in Coercive DiplomacyChapter 4: The Dataset: Data Collection and Coding ProceduresChapter 5: Ultimata 1920-2020: A Chronological SurveyChapter 6: Ultimata 1920-2020: Patterns and FindingsChapter 7: A Typology of Ultimata.- Chapter 8: The DictateChapter 9: The Conditional War DeclarationChapter 10: The BluffChapter 11: The Brinkmanship UltimatumChapter 12: Findings and Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands’ War Studies Research Centre. He advises governments and international organisations and has published on international security, contemporary war, coercion, foresight, and defence planning.